• 1998 – 2004

    Conservatory in Košice (violin – Štefan Demeter, Karol Petróczi, since 2000 orchestral conducting – Ján Drietomský)

  • since 2004

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (violin – Jozef Kopelman, since 2006 Alexander Jablokov)

  • 2005 – 2007

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (choral conducting – Ondrej Šaray)

  • 2006 – 2007

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (orchestral conducting – Peter Feranec)

  • study of conducting also at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (Rastislav Štúr, Rostislav Hališka)

  • master classes with conductor Zsolt Nagy

  • since 2007

    concert master of the State Philharmonic Košice

  • since 2007

    choirmaster of Košice Teachers' Choir

  • since 2010

    member of chamber group Quasars Ensemble

  • since 2013

    guest conductor at the Košice State Theatre

  • since 2014

    artistic director of the chamber orchestra Musica Cassovia

  • since 2015

    conductor of Košice State Philharmonic

  • since season 2016/17

    member of artistic ensemble of the State Theatre in Košice

Maroš Potokár as a violinist has cooperated with the following ensembles: Musica Iuvenalis, Visegrad Youth Philharmonic Orchestra (2005 – concert master, soloist), Chamber Orchestra of the State Philharmonic Košice and others. He was also primarius of Albrecht Quartet and member of piano trio Animé.

In his conducting beginnings he cooperated with the Symphony Orchestra of Conservatory in Košice, Chamber Orchestra in St. Elisabeth Cathedral, with Church Choir of St. Cecilia and mixed choir of Technical University of Košice Collegium Technicum. Later he conducted Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Zlín, Academic Chamber Soloists Prague, State Philharmonic Košice, Chamber Orchestra ZOE, Serghei Lunchevici National Philharmonic, Chisinau, Moldova and chamber group Quasars Ensemble. He is also a choirmaster of Košice Teachers' Choir.

Maroš Potokár in the 2012/2013 season as a conductor debuted on the stage of the Opera of the State Theatre in Košice in performances Dialogues of the Carmelites by F. Poulenc and Rigoletto by G. Verdi. In September 2016 musically realized La Bohème by Puccini again for the Opera of the State Theatre in Košice (for the first time as an internal conductor of the Theatre).

 

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